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Comment by vandersloot

I guess I'll have to make a Dwarf named David and one of these bad boys named Swift, since unfortunately Gnomes still cannot be hunters.

Comment by pibb

i hope these pets get their own skeleton wire frame or whatever the term is because right now it looks like they share the same animations as wolves in the wowhead gallery.

Comment by Liffers

I just tamed the Hillsbrad Fox today when Shattering went live.

To my delight I found that foxes have a move called "Play". When activated the fox will begin to dance with the flavor text reading "When you're the best of friends...", a reference to the Disney movie The Fox and the Hound.

Comment by Lahni

Just tamed one of these cuties today, the black skin. His name is Midnight. I ran him through a few instances to level him up and he was lavished with compliments by each group. He's also become the most popular guild member! This is a must-have for any hunter looking for a great new pet, he's quickly become my favorite of the bunch.

Comment by Thergal

And so, Michael was born !;D and i left out the J nodnod, gotta leave some mystery right?

Comment by Narij

I tamed a fox on my low level hunter and while running through instances people wanted to know what it's special ability is. When I explained the 20% attack speed debuff, many people lost interest.

I bring this up because this pet provides an AOE attack slowing debuff. "Why is that important?" you ask. Well for one, tanks such as Druids and Paladins can only place their debuffs on one target at a time. Further, Death Knight tanks do not want to use their slow debuff since each icy touch means one less death strike.

The fox may not have raid leaders clamoring to get one in the raid, but there's no reason we can't enjoy them in our five mans. Happy hunting.

Comment by Mzmoonrayne

I found the Highlands Fox in Gilneas, Northern Headlands near the waters edge.

Comment by omglaserzpewpew

I think it's a bit disappointing that foxes grow so large when you tame them. My hunter is only level 51 and when I tamed a fox in Loch Modan, the pet's size almost doubled. There are a lot of pets that I wish were bigger, but the fox isn't one of them. =/

Comment by Arkuda

I've called mine Mulder...

Comment by Cure4Karma

They chase after Rats, which means in in Raids it can be bad.... my fox pulled 2 sets of mobs chasing after a rat.....

Comment by Varaey

nice

Comment by Thelasko97

Just got one :) named him swiper

Comment by Arkuda

They should really be cunning ;( or tallstriders should be... Cuz we kinda have two types of ferocity pets with attack speed debuff, and not a single cunning one...

Comment by Zalmiak

I can't tame this one, it says it's untameable when I try.

Comment by JakkFrost

Maybe a stupid question, but are you high enough level to tame it?

Comment by Daffodelle

Name your fox "Vuluptas" and any Latin scholars you may happen to know will probably be amused.

(It's a pun between "vulp-", which means fox, and "voluptas", which is Latin for "pleasure".)

Comment by Vasette

Pertaining to the beast "Ashtail" which is the only Rare fox in the game, can anyone else confirm he has a special ability "cower"? He has it for me at lvl 20. Can anyone else also confirm any other special abilities?

Comment by vavra222

This will be most annoying pet in wow, because every fur@#$ will surely tame it. I cant stand them.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##MasterOfDisguise##DELIM##

Comment by ImNotATree

Haha, should probably be a cunning pet. But who is joking? The fox is a great pet, tamed it myself when I could, lvl10 hunter. I really like this pet, it does a decent amount of DPS and can hold agroo fairly well. GG Blizzard!

Comment by Nordigo

So I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who named mine Samantha?

Comment by Itami

Actually I had a similar thing happen trying to tame the foxes and dogs in the Ruins of Gilneas. Most of them threw the 'cannot be tamed' error despite being a good 30 levels higher than all the mobs.

I just kept going around trying to tame them till I found some that worked.

Comment by Gulikutalu

I have experienced the same situation with my hunters 2 headed vulture.

Comment by TOPACE31

I tamed a black fox and named it Jaeger, after Frank Jaeger (Gray Fox) From Metal Gear

Comment by keroro12

lol this gotta be a Pokemon reference

Comment by Beastblaster

I have 1 hunter in each faction on different servers. Each of them are beastmasters and have pets of all three classes. The Alliance hunter captured a low level Fox in Redridge' who of course went to 82 when captured, and the Horde captured a Baradin Fox. Both these Hunters have a spirit beast cat and dog, Rhinos, chimaeras, core hounds , ravasaurs, and all the common types, and I have found the Fox to be the best pet of the bunch. He deals very good damage, and so far it seems to me that he can take the damage of a Rhino. This is a great pet for everyone, and a really great pet for someone who isn't a Beastmaster. I've been using them in both Dungeons and PvP and until I see different I will keep using them.

Comment by Kaatla

Does anyone else seem to get Retribution Aura when their fox is active?

Comment by Selaphiel

I thought I was the only one.

My lvl 47 Hunter gets retribution aura whenever I summon her fox pet. It doesn't happen on my lvl 42 Hunter, who also has a fox.

The 47 Hunter is a Blood Elf and the 42 is a Worgen. I don't know if that makes a difference or not. They have two different foxes though. The 47 has a Whitetail Fox and the 42 has a Blackwald Fox.

Comment by NeoRageGrenades

I might name it Crash from Crash Bandicoot series......

Comment by Klpire

You must be a stud dude, total chick-magnet

Comment by Aurione

I got the rather stunning Ashtail, and called him Basil (as in Basil Brush - boom boom!)

Comment by firestorm458

Foxes are the best, you never have to feed them...ever, not that that matters now with the new patch coming out..... or will it? /:)

Comment by firestorm458

I named mine dratini... but purely by accident and now im kinda stuck with it, haha

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Comment by Lettermage

All these posts and I haven't once seen the greatest name ever. I named mine McCloud. Oh yes, starfox is back.

Comment by Wolftrainer

I tamed Ashtail, a Whitetail fox and a Forest Stalker, I named Ashtail Whirlwind, the Whitetail fox Tsunami and the Forest Stalker Avalanche.

Comment by Aiyame

This is exactly what happens. The dust sweep will catch critters and after a mob fight will have to run and kill them. VERY annoying, really. I still love foxes and just stop using the tail spin.

Comment by Itami

Except foxes and dogs are tamable, and they show as tamable and I was eventually able to tame one (They were all the same kind of fox and dog). It was weird that a good number of apparently identical mobs weren't tamable and threw an error for no apparent reason. I just wandered about the spawn trying on different individuals till one worked.

These aren't the only mobs I've had this issue with. It isn't as simple just trying to tame non-tamable mobs.

Comment by SlashPOKE

*slaps Klpire*

:D It's a lovely idea, Daffodelle. I named my fox based on what you said and everyone asks about the name. It really seems to spark attention and I for one believe it looks very nice above my fuzzy companion's head!

Thanks very much.

Comment by direggor

Ive seen one named his fox "Raidwiper"...

Comment by OtakuboyT

...or just capture a new one and let go of the old one.

Comment by 87woggie

Theres a Bonus Ability * Play* . It dances ... aww so cute! So does the Fox Kit mini.

Comment by Beastblaster

Into firelands. Still have 2 foxes! Either one is pure dynamite! Needless to say, Best Pet Ever!

Comment by hazmatt

Named mine Foxeeladee.

Comment by RuinatorVek

When I tamed a red one of these on my 70 hunter when they first came out, I tried to call it RedXIII but got an error saying I couldn't use that name, So I had to settle for Nanaki.

Comment by razord93

I called my blue fox Bluetooth

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Comment by Eillesthis

was changed in Mists. It used to reduce physical attack speed (attacks per second). It now reduces spell cast speed (casts per second). In common english the tooltip should say "to have their spell cast TIME increased by 50%." The game uses speed to mean either swing time or swings per second in different contexts (see Speed and Haste in your Character Info) so the tooltip is confusing. Rest assured, the ability is good, it makes the enemy weaker.

Comment by pladeira

New fox ability (MoP) makes it awesome against every class whose attacks depends on magic, and maybe excellent in PvP, forcing reduction of damage. As of today, the description of this ability in wowhead was inaccurate (11/2012).

Comment by TickleMeThrall

What does the fox say?

Comment by Darkaara

With the new sounds database we can finally know what the fox says!

Comment by RoyalBloodElf

I would like a viewer for the pets...:/

Comment by Qoko

Foxes and monkeys have an interesting defensive ability, but quite lackluster to other defensive pet abilities. Agile Reflexes & Primal Agility increase dodge by 30% for 10 seconds on a two minute cooldown. Effectively, it has a 1/12 uptime. I would say this can be good against a very damaging flurry of melee attacks (Hagara's Focused Assault for example), but only that.

It might still not be competitive with the other pet defensives: 50% damage reduction for 12 seconds on a minute cooldown (basilisk's Stone Scales for example; beetles, crabs and turtles have a similar ability) and a spell reflection for 6 seconds on a 30 second cooldown (direhorn's Reflective Armor Plating). Both of these defensives have a 1/5 uptime and are generally stronger against respectively physical and magical attacks.

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Comment by Tarasmine

Fox

Foxes are a family of Ferocity pets in World of Warcraft. They are tamable by a Hunter starting at level 10.

Foxes, through the use of their special ability Agile Reflexes, increasing its dodge chance by 30% for 10 sec.

There are six different skins available for fox pets. The Baradin Fox changes color upon each summon, while Ashtail has a distinct silver-grey model. An added bonus are their cute dances, from the ability Play!